Articles by Jess Zimmerman
Jess Zimmerman was the editor of Grist List.
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Here is a week-old hedgehog having a dream
Oh, nothing much, just a 7-day-old hedgehog doing little kicks and squeaks in his sleep like he was a puppy dog.
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Watch a guy go full Double Rainbow over a vintage train
Well, I learned something new today: Extremely avid railroad fans are called “foamers,” because they foam at the mouth when they see exciting trains. And this guy definitely needs a drool rag, and possibly a Xanax and a long time-out in a rehab center. If Trainspotting were actually about trainspotting, this is basically what you’d […]
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Even David Letterman is cool enough to hate fracking
We expect Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to have incisive, funny takes on important green issues like fracking. But David Letterman? That guy hasn’t been cool since like 1991! [Ed. note: I used to watch Letterman in like 1991.] And yet, only like a year after the rest of America caught on about fracking, here’s Letterman […]
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This plugin keeps baby pics off your Facebook by replacing them with bacon or cats
Are you childfree, anti-population-growth, or just an STFU Parents fan? Unbaby.me will get rugrats off your social media feeds for good, and replace them with pictures of kittens, puppies, bacon, swimsuit models, or whatever you want. Here’s how it works: The Chrome extension has an editable list of keywords that usually herald a precious, sticky […]